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Quit and Support sites.
http://www.quitnow.info.au/
The Australian government's tobacco control website aimed
at giving information to smokers.The site is extensive and
offers an on-line 'quit book' in eight languages, information
about the damage caused by smoking and some tobacco control
adverts are available. There are many smoking related facts
offered. Very user friendly and extremely interesting, should
prove useful to smokers and act as a helpful guide to health
professionals.
http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/
UK department of health website aimed at smokers who want
to give up, explaining reasons for stopping, how to stop
and how to stay stopped. Advice is also given for those
who want to help someone else give up and an e-mail motivate
service is provided along with much more support. Summaries
of recent tobacco related research are given for use by
health professionals and the site focuses on particular
groups of smokers, currently pregnant women and Asian tobacco
users.
http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/
The UK based charity provides year round information on
giving up smoking but is centered around a one day high-profile
event (second Wed in March). An e-mail motivation and tips
service is offered and there are a number of facts and figures
given to help educate the smoker about the dangers of tobacco
use. Advice is provided for those not thinking about giving
up and those who are as well as those trying to give up,
people who have stopped and people who want to help someone
else stop.
http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com/
An extremely popular and extensive cessation site offering
a wide range of articles, support services, advice, facts
and information regarding tobacco use. The site is updated
regularly and is very useful and interesting for anyone
interested in tobacco related issues.
http://www.stop-tabac.ch/
Available in French, English, German, Danish and Italian,
this site provides advice and help to smokers who would
like to give up. It offers an on-line questionnaire which
gives the user a personalized report explaining their current
situation with regards to smoking. Much advice is offered
and it would act as a good support service to smokers and
ex-smokers.
http://www.whyquit.com/
A very hard hitting website aimed at middle aged smokers
with explanations of why people smoke and a notice board
containing stories and advice concerning tobacco issues
and another offering support to those trying to give up.
http://www.smokefree.org.uk/
A well laid out and user friendly site from Smoke Free Birmingham.
The site offers some information on smoking cessation in
Urdu, Punjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, and Bengal. Fundamentally
a cessation site the focus is on smokers with some good
advice offered. Unfortunately the content is relatively
thin at present but the site is being redesigned and it
is possible that a more comprehensive site may result.
http://www.trytostop.org/
An excellent cessation site from the Massachusetts Department
of Public Health. Lots of advice is available to smokers
who would like to quit and an online support service is
offered after free registration. Tobacco facts are given
and there is an extensive links section. Some basic information
is available in Cambodian, Italian, Chinese-simplified,
Korean, Chinese-traditional, Portuguese, French, Russian,
Greek, Hatian-Creole and Spanish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/kth/
This section of the BBC website deals with addiction, especially
to tobacco. Containing lots of resources for people who
want to stop smoking the site also aims to 'act as a springboard
for exploring the many faces of addiction in Britain today'.
The site has recent and not so recent smoking/addiction
related articles. A number of different forms of media,
including sound clips and games are used to help make this
site entertaining.
http://www.nobutts.ucsd.edu/
The California Smokers' Helpline presents this fun and informative
cessation site with lots of information on tobacco use and
how to quit. Very interactive and user friendly, this site
would be an excellent base for smokers who would like to
quit by providing a large amount of information presented
in a fun manner. This also makes it useful to help educate
younger smokers.
http://www.quit.org.uk/content/quitweight.html
QUIT's new, free leaflet "How to Stop Smoking Without
Putting On Weight" is now available. Frequently asked
questions from smokers who ring the Quitline worried about
weight gain are included in the booklet. Plus lots of tips,positive
advice, ideas for snacks and nibbles plus much more.
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Resources for parents/teachers/children.
http://www.joechemo.org
A well presented and user friendly website covering a number
of tobacco control ideas as well as providing a useful resource
of information on tobacco that would be particularly good
for young people.
http://www.quit4life.com/
A site from Health Canada, available in French or English.
A particularly user friendly site aimed at teens giving
some advice on how to quit smoking and why while guiding
the user around the site by following a story about one
of four different young people who are giving up.
http://www.smokescreens.org.uk/
The site was designed by groups of young people from Leicester.
The site is aimed at giving young people the information
they need to make their own mind up on whether or not to
smoke. The information is a bit thin but is fairly well
presented.
http://www.jhmi.edu/~wtse/tobacco/YouthLinks.html
This site is aimed at teenagers who want or need to
know more about the use of tobacco or teachers who need
resources. Full of cartoons this site provides a number
of useful links to other sites that are aimed at children
but have a wider application due to their useful yet simple
nature.
http://www.comiccompany.co.uk/
Comic Company works with some of the UK's finest comic artists
to create smoking prevention resources for young people
in print and online. The site provides good ideas and resources
useful to anyone who would like to use leaflets, posters
and other forms of advertisement to counter tobacco use.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/kth/
This section of the BBC website deals with addiction, especially
to tobacco. Containing lots of resources for people who
want to stop smoking the site also aims to 'act as a springboard
for exploring the many faces of addiction in Britain today'.
The site has recent and not so recent smoking/addiction
related articles. A number of different forms of media,
including sound clips and games are used to help make this
site entertaining.
http://www.roycastle.org/kats/action.htm
The Kids against tobacco campaign by the Roy Castle Foundation.
This is a fun site aimed at kids to try and prevent them
from starting smoking as well as offering advice on how
to help the fight against lung cancer and smoking. The site
contains, amongst other things, factsheets and news. The
well presented and informative games would perhaps be useful
as a classroom resource to help educate children about the
dangers of tobacco.
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org
The campaign for tobacco free kids is a website that is
aimed at preventing children starting smoking as well as
creating an awareness of various government policies and
tobacco company methods of luring children into tobacco
use. A number of articles are available that cover a range
of areas including passive smoking, dangers of low tar cigarettes
and much more. Also online is information regarding their
latest campaigns. A very informative site.
http://www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/
Offering health information for teachers so that they can
pass on correct information to their pupils. Covers a number
of issues including smoking and provides sensible and easy
to understand information covering a range of topics and
includes suggested guidelines for tobacco education that
fits in with the school curriculum as well as links to interactive
sites suitable as classroom resources.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/reduction-tabagisme
Available in French and English (although there are differences
between the two sites), Health Canada run a page with a
number of useful publications available online, some as
.pdf files. These cover issues such as women and tobacco
and passive smoking as well as much more. Information on
some current policies to tobacco is given and various statistics
are also available. Some anti tobacco video clips are also
online. Advice is available for teachers and explanations
of current campaigns are given. An interesting site with
some useful resources.
http://www.wholetruth.com/
An excellent site aimed at young people to help educate
them about tobacco and the tobacco industry. The site is
incredibly user friendly and offers lots of information
but does not give the hard anti-smoking messages often observed.
Instead information that helps create an understanding of
tobacco issues is provided leaving the smoker to make their
own decisions.
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Zyban, NRT and other
cessation drugs.
http://www.nicotinell.co.uk/
A cessation website offering support and advice to smokers
trying to give up. Based around nicotine replacement therapy
(the product of the company) and offering a behavioral support
program to complement this, the site would be useful for
those using these products.
http://www.habitrol.com/
An nicotine replacement therapy site presented by a company
that makes the product. An online stop smoking assistant
is offered. May be of use to people using NRT, the site
should not be used as a replacement for advice from your
doctor.
http://www.nicodermcq.com/
A nicotine replacement therapy site presented by a company
that makes the product. Quizzes, hints and advice is given
to those using NRT. The site should not be used as a replacement
for advice from your doctor.
http://zyban.ibreathe.com/?a=84
From Glaxo-Wellcome promoting their 'anti-smoking' pill
Zyban. The site should not be used as a replacement or substitute
for the advice of a doctor. Useful if the person has already
been prescribed the drug and is looking for extra support
and advice.
http://www.gw-zyban.com/ Zyban information page including
full prescribing information.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/suppl_3/iii91
The use of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation during
pregnancy - Tobacco Control [V. 9(Suppl 3):iii91-iii94 Autumn
2000]. An article that looks at the use of anti-smoking
drugs during pregnancy.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10728115&dopt=Abstract
Pharmacotherapy of smoking cessation - Arch Fam Med [2000
Mar;9(3):270-81]. An abstract of an article that notes that
the authors "discuss nicotine addiction and treatment
for special populations, including women, ethnic minorities,
light smokers, and patients with cardiovascular and pulmonary
diseases".
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&dB=PubMed
The results of a Medline search for "bupropion + pregnancy".
Should provide further useful links.
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